About Laura
Laura Brum is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with ten years of experience. She helps people facing depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship strain, parenting stress, ADHD, OCD, and mood challenges. Laura aims to make therapy approachable and practical so parents and adults can take concrete steps forward.
She keeps sessions warm and interactive. Conversations focus on real problems and everyday coping. Laura avoids stigmatizing labels and treats people with respect and sensitivity.
Background and approach
Her work blends client-centered listening with evidence-informed tools. That includes cognitive behavioral techniques to change patterns, dialectical skills for intense emotions, and EMDR for processing traumatic memories. Mindfulness and solution-focused strategies are used to build small, useful changes fast.
Laura draws on a decade of practice in community settings. She often helps people make a clear plan for what to try between sessions, and she adjusts that plan as progress unfolds. Sessions can include skill practice, short written exercises, or guided processing depending on the need.
She emphasizes collaboration - clients set goals and Laura offers tools to reach them. Therapy can be steady and practical, with room for honest feeling and lighter moments. If someone wants help moving forward after loss, trauma, ongoing stress, or a life change, Laura supports that effort.
How specific approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding how you see your situation. The therapist offers empathy and helps you name goals so sessions stay focused on what matters to you. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches straightforward strategies to change them, which works well for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, combines emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and effective communication skills to help with intense emotions and relationship problems.Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. The therapist will talk with you about your goals, what has helped before, and which tools feel most comfortable. Together you can try an approach for a few sessions and adjust based on what works best for your needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send notes between sessions or check in with brief updates. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep regular contact while working toward your goals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Oregon
- Languages
- English